Re: [Evolution] Merging Inbox/Outbox files

[William Farmer <wfarmer metamedia us>]

As in get them from the old Inbox/Outbox files and import them to
evolution.

They are no longer on the original email server. This is a POP3 account
so the emails were downloaded and saved to the Inbox/Outbox files.

I'll try the add standard mbox spool file to see if that works. We'll
see what happens.

-William

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:07 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 08:59 -0400, William Farmer wrote: 
> > I know it was hosed because all of my email was fine before the upgrade,
> > and after the upgrade it kept telling me that it couldn't retrieve any
> > messages. 
>
> By 'retrieve' do you mean get the messages from a server or just access
> the messages?
>
> > I tried importing, but the import takes forever and usually
> > crashes/hangs without telling me what's going on.
> > Is there any way to uncorrupt the Inbox and Outbox files? Is it possible
> > that they are just fine and is there any way to import the files or
> > uncorrupt them through the command line so that I can see what's going
> > on?
> > Each file is about 500 megs in size since it's 4 years of email. I'd
> > like to be able to recover them.
>
> If it is an MBOX you can Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts -> Add ...
> and create a standand mbox spool file / directory and point it to where
> the old mailbox data is.  Then you should be able to access the mailbox
> and move the messages.
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